The Beta channel has been updated to 20.0.1132.37 (Platform version: 2248.85.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, Samsung Chromebook Series 5 550, and Samsung Chromebox Series 3, and Cr-48). This release contains stability improvements.

Highlights of these changes are:

Firmware update for Chromebook Series 5 550. Note: A screen with Chrome Logo and a critical update notification will show after update restarts. It will reboot by itself after firmware update completes.

131401 - Fixed Chrome crashes on opening Microsoft Office formatted files (such as .doc, .xls, etc) when those files are stored and opened locally on the Chrome OS machine.

Crash fixes

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Yeah I was having trouble accessing facebook. It seemed to resolve a couple days before the update but had been going on since I got it. Sometimes ads on pages wouldn't load (which itself isn't a problem, but I was afraid it would extend to other pages aside from FB). Where there any pages specifically you were having trouble with? I was very close to returning the 550 but I'm much happier now.